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Plural of anxiety

regular plural

The plural of anxiety is anxieties.

Forms of anxiety

Singularanxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/
Pluralanxieties
Countablecountable and uncountable

Anxieties in a sentence

  • The sight chiseled up old anxieties.From the entry chisel up
  • The origins of the cyberpunk genre involve Western anxieties about the East.2020 December 8, George Yang, “Orientalism, ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry techno-orientalism
  • Be open about your fears and anxieties, and be open-eared to your husband's feelings and thoughts too.2020 July 19, Wayne and Wanda, “I'm furious that my mostly-unemployed husband refuses to home-school our kids this fall”, in Anchorage…. From the entry open-eared
  • In addition to my anxieties and obsessions about my appearance, I also suffered terribly from unrequited love.2012, Kerri Sackville, The Little Book of Anxiety: Confessions From a Worried Life, London: The Robson Press, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry dagginess
  • “A lot of athletes experience precompetition anxieties in the first place,” Rosenfeld said.2007 July 23, Juliet Macur, “Before Triathlon, Psychologists Calm Athletes’ Fears”, in New York Times. From the entry precompetition

Meaning of anxiety

  1. noun An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
  2. noun An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). Endeavor (to please).
  3. noun A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach.

Full definition of anxiety

Questions about the plural of anxiety

What is the plural of anxiety?
The plural of anxiety is anxieties.
Is anxiety countable?
Anxiety is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anxiety (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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